Even more (!) musing on Alpha-Funding

* Narrow-slice view of the industry incoming. I do not claim to speak for all (or most/many/any other/whatever) indie developers. Before Minecraft invented/popularised alpha-funding as a viable way to make videogames, here is how you’d make an ambitious large-in-scope indie game: Make a small indie game in your spare time Repeat 1 until the pittance…

More Thoughts on Game Criticism

No game should be immune from criticism – let’s just get that point out there first so there’s no misunderstanding. But this whole mess with Digital Homicide and Jim Sterling about which Mr Biffo has written a couple of excellent opinion pieces here and here got me thinking, especially the latter post. I’m not going…

Some Twaddle about VR

I don’t want to get all pretentious and cite the vast array of literature I read so that I come across as some kind of intellectual, because to be honest I don’t read that sort of stuff and I’m not clever enough to fake it. Most of what I read is non-fiction sciencey stuff and the fiction is…